Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ascensus is a technology and service platform powering savings plans across America. The company is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, and operate enterprise-grade CI/CD platforms across hybrid AWS and on-premises environments, leading platform standardization, progressive delivery, reliability engineering, and security-by-design. The role is responsible for release automation, testing, database and data automation, observability, incident readiness, and compliance-focused pipeline governance.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and operate a standardized CI/CD framework supporting Dev, QA, PartnerLab, Staging, and Production
- Define promotion workflows with enforced quality gates and artifact immutability
- Establish PartnerLab as a dedicated integration and validation environment with no direct path to Production
- Ensure environment parity across AWS and on-prem systems
- Implement feature flags, canary deployments, blue-green deployments, and phased rollouts
- Enable automated rollback based on health checks, error rates, and SLO breaches
- Maintain full release traceability from commit through production
- Integrate unit, integration, regression, security, and performance testing into CI/CD pipelines
- Enforce automated quality gates before environment promotion
- Support manual validation workflows with controlled access, observability, and test artifacts
- Automate database schema versioning, migrations, rollbacks, and validation
- Build lower-environment refresh pipelines sourced from production data
- Enforce data masking and PII anonymization for non-production environments
- Validate data integrity and consistency post-refresh
- Define and enforce observability standards across logs, metrics, and traces
- Implement service health dashboards, alerts, and incident signals
- Integrate deployment health into automated release decisions
- Support on-call readiness, incident response, and post-incident reviews
- Embed security scanning, secrets management, and access controls into pipelines
- Enforce least-privilege IAM, credential rotation, and artifact integrity checks
- Align CI/CD workflows with enterprise change management and audit requirements
Skills
- 10+ years of hands‑on experience designing, building, and operating enterprise‑grade CI/CD platforms across hybrid environments (AWS and on‑premises)
- AWS (mandatory): ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, IAM, CloudFormation, CloudWatch
- Hybrid infrastructure experience across on‑prem VMs, bare metal, and internal networks
- Terraform for modular, reusable, policy‑compliant infrastructure
- GitHub Enterprise & GitHub Actions (reusable workflows, templates, runners, environments)
- CI/CD orchestration across hybrid AWS and on‑prem topologies
- Artifact versioning, promotion, and immutability strategies
- Docker image design, optimization, and security hardening
- Kubernetes (EKS and on‑prem) deployment patterns, scaling, and lifecycle management
- Helm for deployment standardization
- Automated testing frameworks (unit, integration, regression, performance)
- Static and dynamic analysis tools (code quality, security, dependency scanning)
- Feature flag platforms or equivalent internal capabilities
- Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server (mandatory)
- Schema migration tooling with automated rollback
- Data masking, anonymization, and controlled refresh automation
- Metrics, logging, and tracing with Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, New Relic, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, ELK
- SLO‑driven alerting and deployment health evaluation (e.g., Uptrends, PagerDuty)
- Automated failure containment and rollback strategies
- HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, or equivalent
- Secure pipeline design with controlled credential access
- Compliance‑ready logging, approvals, and traceability
- Experience in regulated or financial services environments
- Strong documentation, runbooks, and architectural communication
- Proven collaboration with application, infrastructure, security, and QA teams
- Comfortable operating in enterprise, onshore delivery models
Benefits
- 401(k) match
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
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